5 Ways To Ruin A Great Design. 

1. 5 Ways To Ruin A Great Design.

As an active, contributing member of the Church Marketing Lab on Flickr, I’ve seen my fair share of bad design pieces.  Don’t get me wrong, I’m not trying to say that everything in the Lab is bad; that would be...
Consider Yourself Hooked Up. 

2. Consider Yourself Hooked Up.

Thanks to everyone who read and enjoyed my Evolution Of The Bulletin series. For those of you who have asked, I’m making the InDesign source files available to you… right here - right now. One of our values here at CCV...
Evolution of The Bulletin - Part 3. 

3. Evolution of The Bulletin - Part 3.

The next phase in the evolution of the bulletin at CCV included a completely new shape and size that would allow us to save some money by freeing up space to print some various items for free.  My boss, Jon Edmiston, explains this...
Evolution of the Bulletin - Part 1. 

4. Evolution of the Bulletin - Part 1.

Over the next couple of days, I’ll share with you how our church bulletin has evolved over the past couple of years.  When I came on staff here at CCV, over 2 years ago, one of my primary tasks was to design and layout the weekly...
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10 Commandments



Came across this little gem of a video on the North Point Media blog.  I love kinetic typography and this is a great example of keeping it clean and simple - but VERY effective.

The Ten Commandments - motion (kinetic) typography from Vit Ryznar on Vimeo.

Photos With The Frank Family



I’m trying to get back in the proverbial saddler here on my blog - we’ll see how that works out!  I got to spend some time with Andy Frank and his family last Friday evening.  Andy is the worship pastor at CCV and does a fantastic job on a weekly basis.  His family is beautiful - they make my pictures look GOOD!  Here’s a few highlights from Friday’s shoot.

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Here Are My Hands.



Stumbled across this gem of a video over on Blaine Hogan’s blog.  As one who often battles with feeling insignifcant and unworthy of the call, this video really hit home for me.  This song is now my prayer…

Will you make it yours?

Hip-Hop in Church?



If you’re a Coldplay purist, you’re probably not going to like this post.  I’m a big fan of Coldplay, but.. I’m a bigger fan of pushing creative boundaries in the Church.  Last weekend at Palm Valley Church, they did just that.  Take a look at the video and see for yourself…

Kudos to Derrick and the rest of the team at Palm Valley for thinking outside the box and trying something completely unexpected. I love it!!

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